Supported Providers

KinBot supports 23 AI providers out of the box. Each provider offers different capabilities: language models (LLM), embeddings, image generation, and web search.

Provider Table

Provider	LLM	Embedding	Image	Search	Rerank	API Key Required
Anthropic	✅					✅
Anthropic (Claude Max)	✅					❌ (OAuth)
OpenAI	✅	✅	✅			✅
Gemini	✅		✅			✅
Mistral AI	✅	✅				✅
DeepSeek	✅	✅				✅
Groq	✅					✅
Together AI	✅	✅	✅			✅
Fireworks AI	✅	✅	✅			✅
Ollama	✅	✅				❌ (local)
OpenRouter	✅	✅	✅			✅
Cohere	✅	✅			✅	✅
xAI	✅	✅	✅			✅
Perplexity	✅			✅		✅
Voyage		✅				✅
Jina AI		✅			✅	✅
Nomic		✅				✅
Replicate			✅			✅
Stability AI			✅			✅
fal.ai			✅			✅
Brave Search				✅		✅
Tavily				✅		✅
Serper				✅		✅

Capabilities

• LLM — Chat and text completion models used for Kin conversations
• Embedding — Vector embedding models used for memory storage and retrieval
• Image — Image generation models (used by image generation tools)
• Search — Web search APIs (used by search tools)

Configuration

Providers are configured in Settings > Providers in the KinBot UI. Each provider requires:

1. An API key (except Ollama and Anthropic OAuth)
2. Optionally, a custom base URL (useful for Ollama or proxy setups)

For Ollama, ensure the base URL points to your Ollama instance (e.g., http://localhost:11434 or http://host.docker.internal:11434 from Docker).

API Endpoints

KinBot exposes several provider management endpoints:

Method	Endpoint	Description
GET	/api/providers	List all configured providers
POST	/api/providers	Add a new provider (auto-tests connection)
PATCH	/api/providers/:id	Update provider config (re-tests connection)
DELETE	/api/providers/:id	Delete a provider (blocked if it’s the last with a required capability)
GET	/api/providers/types	List all available provider types (built-in + plugin)
GET	/api/providers/capabilities	Check which capabilities are currently available
GET	/api/providers/models	List all available models across valid providers
POST	/api/providers/test	Test a connection without saving
POST	/api/providers/:id/test	Re-test an existing provider’s connection

Note

You cannot delete the last provider covering llm or embedding capabilities. KinBot will return a 409 error to prevent breaking core functionality.

Minimum Setup

To use KinBot, you need at minimum:

1. One LLM provider — For Kin conversations (e.g., Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini)
2. One embedding provider — For memory to work (e.g., OpenAI with text-embedding-3-small)

Optional but recommended:

• A search provider for web search tools
• An image provider for image generation